Such a weekly rhythm is well worth the effort. For those who are not accustomed to refraining from work on Sunday, the learning curve can be steep, but the reward is tremendous. Sunday becomes a day to look forward to, rather than the day
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“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
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“Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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